In the framework of the 3E seminar series on the topic of Experiments, Ethics and Economics, Prof. Christine Schlitz held the lecture “Acquiring number concepts: (How) does language contribute?” on 23 February 2022.
Prof. Schiltz presented and discussed recent findings from studies on the influence of language on numerical cognition in a multilingual context such as Luxembourg. She described data which were collected with behavioral and neuroimaging approaches using different tasks (i.e. transcoding and calculation) and different stimuli (2-digit and 1-digit numbers)(e.g. Van Rinsveld et al., 2015; Van Rinsveld et al., 2017; Poncin et al., 2019). Taken together these studies show that numbers bear the fingerprint of languages. The seminar especially underlined the existence of costs, which are entailed by processing and computing numbers in the second compared to the first language of math acquisition.
More information about Prof. Schlitz’s research can be found on her webpage.